Pathways to gang involvement and drug distribution [electronic resource] : social, environmental, and psychological factors / Inger-Lise Lien.

I Bakvendtkand. English

9783319016641 electronic book
3319016644 electronic book
9783319016634

Cham : Springer, [2013?]

©2014

English

1 online resource (ix, 133 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-01664-1 doi

HV9180.A5

364.3609481

This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depression among gang-involved youths, and other mechanisms of control and retention within the system of gangs. Based on a study of young inmates in Norway, with international backgrounds including Africa, Pakistan, Middle East and Western Europe, the findings explained in this book are broadly applicable. It aims to create a picture of the entire system of gang membership, while revealing a research framework that could be applied to other studies. Gang members were found in high levels to be suffering from depression and traumatic stress, and were often heavily indebted (financially and otherwise) to persons in the outside world. Owing money, violence and other threats, all make it difficult to leave the system, despite the pains they suffer within it.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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